subcategory
noun
subcategory is spelled S-U-B-C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is subcatagory: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Subcategory is a noun meaning “With respect to a given category; a narrower category”. The plural of subcategory is subcategories.
How many letters and syllables are in subcategory?
| Letters | 11: S-U-B-C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, subcatagory, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell subcategory?
Subcategory is spelled S-U-B-C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 65 of the searches for subcategory in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is subcategory?
Subcategory appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce subcategory?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-subcategory.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with subcategory
Also written: sub-category (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of subcategory
- subcategories plural
- sub-category
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does subcategory mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
- 2
A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Subcategory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense more narrow category:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sous-catégorie |
| German | Unterkategorie |
| Portuguese | subcategoria |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.